Nancy M. P. King, JD, is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She also co-directed the Wake Forest University Center for Bioethics, Health, and Society and Bioethics Graduate Program. Her scholarship addresses a range of bioethics issues, including: informed consent, benefit, and uncertainty in health care and research; development and use of novel biotechnologies; international and cross-cultural questions in human subjects research; and justice in health care and research. She has published over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters. Her most recent book is Bioethics Reenvisioned: A Path toward Health Justice (with Larry R. Churchill and Gail E. Henderson, UNC Press 2022). Professor King has taught bioethics, medical humanities, and research ethics to medical students, graduate students in bioethics and the health sciences, and health professionals in domestic and international settings. She is a fellow of the Hastings Center and a member of the AAHRPP Board of Directors, and has served on hospital ethics committees, IRBs, DSMBs, the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, and the DHHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Human Research Protections.
